Revisiting Jigsaw Puzzles!

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We started to go OT on stygg's Art Gallery thread, and hopefully, this thread can be a new home to Q, A, and advice concerning the art of illustrating jigsaw puzzles.

Gary Priester wrote about the creation of pieces in The November 2000 Xara Xone Tutorial, and Xcellent, who evidently closed his tg account, posted A Puzzle Piece Mini-Tutorial in 2006.

But the interest in jigsaw puzzle illustration is either not completely satisfied, or it needs revisiting from a decade ago.

I'll go first: Attached is a six shape puzzle starter kit. Now, you'll see when you open it that the pieces could use a little work, just a little and that's why we have the Shape tool. :) Seriously, six different pieces that all can link is a lot better artistic and hobbyist solution to a puzzle than identical pieces. I'd like to thank Wayne Schmidt for posting the design pieces I traced off on his blog.



As Arnie loves to say, "I'll be back." :)

Feel free to populate this thread with jigsaw idea of your own in the meantime.

My Best,



Jigsaw Starter kit.xar